Vanessa Torres

Vanessa Torres born July 17 1986 in Anaheim California is a professional skateboarder She is sponsored by Meow Skateboards and is the first woman to win X Games gold In 2003 the X Games first featured female skateboarding competitions Torres placed first winning gold in the street event then called Park Torres won silver in the X Games Street Competition in 2004 In 2015 at the X Games in Austin and 2016 at the X Games in Oslo Torres won bronze She again placed in the top ten in 2016 and 2017 She is featured in several womens skateboarding videos such as AKA Girl Skater 2003 Getting Nowhere Faster 2004 and Quit Your Day Job 2014 She also appears in the video game Tony Hawks Proving Ground making her the third female as a playable skater to appear in the Tony Hawks video game series after Elissa Steamer and LynZ Adams Hawkins